5 SHOWS is the Artissima twice-monthly feature that recommends 5 exhibitions not to be missed in various European cities, chosen from the viewpoint of curators and directors of important institutions familiar with the local context. A different way to find guidance in the discovery of contemporary art across borders, with a personal and always up-to-date perspective.
The fifth focus is on Roma, with a selection by Luca Lo Pinto, curator.
Here are the 5 exhibitions currently on view she has chosen for our readers:
Darius Mikšys. Socks For John Waters
Ermes Ermes
Up to 20.03.2025
“Less and less storyless events would occur to the wishful mind. Because of the distinct functioning of the mental immune system, which accepts ambiguously foreign entities only, a protrusion on the head as an additional organ or limb will be required in order to corrupt plain objects into the ping-story packets that will be mitigated into larger communication units further.”
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Trevor Yeung. Il più vicino e il più lontano, il più chiaro e il più scuro
T293
Up to 17.04.2025
T293 è lieta di annunciare la mostra personale di Trevor Yeung, che ha recentemente attirato l’attenzione con la sua potente installazione alla 60ª Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia, in rappresentanza del Padiglione di Hong Kong. La mostra, intitolata “Il più vicino e il più lontano, il più chiaro e il più scuro”, esplora la dualità e l’interazione tra due distinte serie di opere: “Chaotic Suns” e “Night Mushroom Colon”.
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Le Ragazze di Maldoror
Il museo del Louvre
Up to 03.04.2025
Le ragazze di Maldoror. A journey through women’s art in Rome from 1977 to 1981. In the 1970s, Rome was a lively cultural crossroads, a fertile ground for artistic innovation and rebellious ideas. It was in this context that the Maldoror bookshop was born, a meeting place for artists, writers and intellectuals, which attracted a group of women who each left their mark on the history of art.
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Salvatore Fancello. Opere da una collezione privata milanese
Giustini / Stagetti
Up to 29.03.2025
Galleria Giustini/Stagetti presents the exhibition “Salvatore Fancello: Work from a Private Milanese Collection”, dedicated to a group of works by the Sardinian artist. These works, exhibited for the first time since the 1942 retrospective at the Pinacoteca di Brera, testify the originality and innovative strength of Fancello’s plastic and graphic language, confirming his fundamental role in the Italian art scene between the two world wars.
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Gala Porras-Kim. A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch
Museo delle Civiltà
Ongoing
In A Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch (which plays with the possible meanings of the term Recollection as ‘remembering’ and/or ‘re-collecting’), the artist asked the officials responsible for the collections of the former National Museum of Oriental Art to film them as they present certain objects to which they feel close for professional or personal reasons. Leaving only their hands visible and their voices audible, their stories are presented inside the same showcases that usually house these objects, thus giving their memories, skills and sensibilities an alienating subjectivity compared to the official, apparently neutral and impartial voice of the Museum.
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If you want to discover the cities and institutions explored so far, here are the previous episodes:
Berlin | Athens | Porto | Zurich
